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The biggest private exit of 2012 was Ancestry.com, for $1.6 billion, while Meraki, Yammer, NextG Networks, and Nicira all passed the billion-dollar mark. Private company research firm Privco has ranked the top 20 merger and acquisitions of the top 20 technology VC firms of 2012, including Ancestry.com’s $1.6 billion sale...

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Facebook will try to turn its story around today. In its first earnings report as a public company, it will use a positive second-quarter earnings statement as a way to craft an uplifting tale. Investors, however, may have trouble seeing the story as anything but a work of fiction....

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Source: https://www.facebook.com/zuckZuckerberg's desk Facebook’s newest advertising product, expected to be unveiled on Feb. 29, leaked to the web yesterday. The ads themselves would appear to be a natural evolution of the company’s primary money-making business, but perhaps there’s more to these new sponsored stories than meets the eye. The introduction...

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For the first time ever, a private company has placed in the top ten most active acquirers. In 2012, 2,357 private technology companies were bought for a combined total of $84 billion, according to a new report from research firm PrivCo. That’s up 22 percent from 2011, but the real surprise is...

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Silicon Valley remains well in the lead when it comes to acquisitions of private tech companies. Well, it shouldn’t come as a big surprise that the San Francisco Bay Area ranks on top when it comes to acquisitions of privately-held tech companies. But what’s amazing is just how far out...

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PrivCo, a research firm that tracks private companies, reported yesterday that daily-deals company LivingSocial had taken an "emergency" round of debt from current investors. Now LivingSocial CEO Tim O'Shaughnessy has strongly denied that report in an email to employees obtained by Fortune's Dan Primack. LivingSocial is the No. 2 player in...

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In 2010, Google bought a Web-based photo-editing startup called Picnik for $50 million. Picnik's three cofounders made $16 million each. Privco, "the private copmany financial data authority," (subscribe here) has obtained a copy of the email thread that launched Picnik in 2005. Everyone in the startup space likes to say...

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We’ve said it before: If Groupon has the flu; LivingSocial has pneumonia. And both cases look a lot worse after last night. I’m really not trying to beat up on LivingSocial’s CEO Tim O’Shaugnessy. But the rosy picture he tried to paint for employees last week is looking even...

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Real estate search engine Trulia went public Thursday. Above is a map of its San Francisco home listings Image: Trulia Buying real estate might not always be a smart bet, but investing in online real-estate listing company Trulia just might be. The San Francisco-based company Trulia (TRLA), started trading Thursday...

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Digital pin-board site Pinterest is scorching hot. People are pinning like crazy. Publishers are benefiting from an uptick in Pinterest-driven traffic. And venture capitalists are tripping over themselves to get a piece of the social property. But does all this interest warrant a $500 million valuation, especially without any...

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West Coast--best coast? Not so, says the thriving New York City start-up scene. During the past decade, the Big Apple has emerged as a top tech center for new companies and a hotbed for both angel and venture capital funding. In the last year, 127 start-ups were founded in...

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Secretly seething? (Photo: rosiesays.com) While browsing our Google Reader this morning, we came across this list of wacky interview questions compiled by Glassdoor.com. You know the drill: “How many cows are in Canada?” (Correct answer: Who cares?) However, we were reminded of our favorite party game, which we haven’t played in quite some time,...

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Shares continue to slump on Wall Street as lawsuits against founder Mark Zuckerberg allege company misled investorsFacebook's shares dipped below $30 Tuesday as the company's shares hit new lows and continued to struggle in the wake of its massive initial public offering (IPO).Even as US stock markets bounced back from...

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With each additional successful launch and commercial flight Elon Musk’s Space X gets more and more valuable. For those employees who have been with the company for much of its 10-plus years, that’s a long time to wait for a payout on the hours of blood, sweat, and tears...

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Workday’s executive team rings the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange Friday for its public debut Photo: NASDAQ Expectations were high when Workday (WDAY) co-founders Aneel Bhusri and Dave Duffield rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange this morning, marking the company’s public debut. So...

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Shares of Facebook plummeted Tuesday even as the Nasdaq showed slight gains Investors are continuing to hammer Facebook just 11 days after its initial public offering, sending the stock of the social networking powerhouse down 9.6 percent in trading Tuesday. The stock closed at $28.84, the first time it has...

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An ongoing collection of commentary and analysis on Facebook's upcoming IPOThe nearly $100bn valuation of Facebook in the lead up to the company's much-anticipated public offering Friday has many people talking and some investors reeling. The eight-year old company has an unprecedented 900 million users worldwide, and its COO is...

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Facebook, in its updated S-1 released on April 23, dazzled us with more milestone user numbers: 901 million monthly active users, and 500 million on mobile. But it also reported a “seasonal” decline in revenues — $1.058 billion compared to $1.131 billion in the quarter before — and (perhaps more...

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There's a report floating around claiming that early Tumblr investor Union Square Ventures (USV) netted a 5,000X return when Yahoo paid $1.1 billion for the social-blogging site. The same report, which comes from PrivCo, an private firm that reports on statups, claims to have exacting details about how much each...

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Murphy P.A. files a class action lawsuit against Facebook. This and more in today's Daily Wrap. Sometimes it's difficult to catch everything that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you missed...

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French online music company Deezer today revealed what it intends to do first with its fresh $130 million funding from Warner Music Group owner Access Industries. The news, announced at Deezer UK’s first birthday bash in London, includes expansion into 76 more countries, bringing the total to 160, and a...

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Buried in Facebook’s amended S-1 is a fun little nugget of information: CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be selling 30.2 million of his shares in the company’s initial public offering, a sale that will net him roughly $1 billion. In the lead-up to its IPO, Facebook set its opening price...

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Facebook will officially start courting investors and kick off its IPO roadshow next week in a one-month run-up to a late April offering, multiple sources close to the company have said. This revelation comes from financial data analysis company PrivCo, which has also learned that the Facebook IPO roadshow...

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Evidence is quickly mounting that Facebook's initial public offering will not be the big boost the social media sector needs as Silicon Valley companies try to prove to Wall Street they can grow revenues. On Thursday, PrivCo CEO Sam Hamadeh told VentureBeat that several people close to the company were...

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Jack Dorsey is about to be a billionaire — on paper, at least. The Twitter creator will be catapulted to billionaire-dollar-man status when his payments startup Square closes a $200 million funding round at a $3.25 billion valuation, as is expected to happen. PrivCo, a firm that specializes in...

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New York City is continuing to make its mark in the startup community. In the last year, big-name companies spent $8.3 billion on mergers and acquisition deals in 100 New York-based startups, according to a recent report by PrivCo. That tally put New York right behind the heart of the...

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Facebook’s latest valuation just reached over $100 billion, and for some reason that struck a chord with me, especially considering the number of users on Facebook. So, just because it’s an interesting thing to think about and not a serious calculation, we decided to do some math: We reported earlier today that the last auction of...

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Profits drop during first three months of 2012, but advertising revenue up 37% and Facebook now boasts 901m monthly usersFacebook's earnings and revenues fell in the first quarter of 2012, the company said in a regulatory filing ahead of what is expected to be a $100bn stock market sale.The company...